Habataki

“Luminous Wings” is the long-term demonstration theme selected to draw out the “ultra-thin”, “lightweight”, and “flexible” quality of OLED panels by “Symfos,” Konica Minolta’s next-generation lighting brand. As the first installation of this demonstration theme, “Habataki – Light, Leap to the Future” expresses how OLED panels, which are expected to bring innovation to the lighting culture, takes flight and leaps into the future.

Design Engineer, Project Director

With Takram since 2012, Hisato is an award-winning design engineer whose multidisciplinary abilities span from hardware to software and from art to science. After working LEADING EDGE DESIGN corp., Hisato founded ON THE FLY Inc. in 2010 and produced a number of influential works including the notable on the fly navigation design. A recipient of the Good Design Award in 2004 and the German iF Product Design Award in 2005, his work has most recently received acclaim at the Media Arts Festival held by the Japanese National Agency of Cultural Affairs in 2012. He holds a B.Eng. in Department of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and Media-Master degree from the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS).

Hisato Ogata

Branding, Visual identity, corporate identity

Brand

R&D, design, prototyping of spatial experiences such as retail, installation, exhibition etc

Spatial

Takram presented the OLED (organic light emitting diode) installation “Luminous Wings” with Konica Minolta at the Lighting Fair, Japan’s largest lighting trade show; held in Tokyo in February 2013. Konica Minolta’s unique membrane production technology has enabled OLED light panels to be produced over a flexible plastic base. This 60 mm x 150 mm OLED panel is paper-thin and has only 1/10 of the weight of a glass panel of the same size. Using two flexible panels, Takram designed and developed nine “luminous wings” that flicker and flutter in sync with music.

Habataki

THEME: “Luminous Wings”

Project Information

Team